2001 in Germany

Incumbents

• President – Johannes Rau
• Chancellor – Gerhard Schröder

  Events

• February 7–18 - 51st Berlin International Film Festival
• March 2 - Germany in the Eurovision Song Contest 2001
• March 25 - Baden-Württemberg state election, 2001
• March 25 -Rhineland-Palatinate state election, 2001
• August 13 - Arena AufSchalke in Gelsenkirchen is opened.
• September 23 - Hamburg state election, 2001
• October 21 -Berlin state election, 2001
• Date unknown: German company ZF Sachs was sold to ZF Friedrichshafen AG, and renamed to ZF Sachs AG.

  Deaths

• January 14 - Burkhard Heim, German theoretical physicist
• January 31 - Heinz Starke, German politician
• March 28 - Günther Treptow, German opera singer
• April 26 - Ruth Hellberg, German actress
• Juny 25 - Kurt Hoffmann, German film director
• July 5 - Hannelore Kohl, German first wife of German Chancellor Helmut Kohl
• July 8 - Ernst Baier, German figure skater
• July 31 - Friedrich Franz, Hereditary Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin
• September 20 - Karl-Eduard von Schnitzler, German journalist
• November 23 - Gerhard Stoltenberg, German politician